Press

Coverage of Shawn "Barney" Barron and 9BARN, by people who were there.

Surf press

• SURFER, May 2025. Santa Cruz Honors Shawn "Barney" Barron With Steamer Lane Air Show, by August Howell. Cinco de Barney at the Lane, ten years on.
• MERGE4, May 2023. Cinco de Barney: Honoring a Santa Cruz Surfing Legend.
• Inherent Bummer, May 2024. The Cinco de Barney Airshow at the Lane.

Santa Cruz

• Santa Cruz Sentinel, October 30, 2024. Josh Pomer premieres new film Particle Fever to sold-out crowd at Rio Theatre.
• Santa Cruz Vibes Magazine. Particle Fever, by Neal Kearney. The Rio sees a sold-out house for Josh Pomer's Barney tribute.
• Santa Cruz Sentinel, January 4, 2017. Shawn "Barney" Barron was a magician in the surf, but he was also a visionary in his art.
• Split Peak Soup, January 5, 2017. The HeART of Barney. The R. Blitzer Gallery show.
• Santa Cruz Sentinel, May 6, 2015.

Film

• Particle Fever, directed by Josh Pomer, 2024. Premiered at the Rio Theatre, Santa Cruz.
• Barney has 30 confirmed film and television credits. IMDb.

On the record

Kelly Slater, on the Joe Rogan Experience, episode 1185, October 22, 2018:

"I had a buddy, a surf buddy from Santa Cruz. He unfortunately passed away. A guy named Barney, a good friend of all of ours. And he used to do these surf video clips, and he would walk downstairs. Whoa. And then walk upstairs. And he could literally just walk anywhere on his hands. It was so cool to see."

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